Sentences with phrase «killed unarmed teenager»

The devices, about the size of a pager, have been a centerpiece of police - reform proposals since a Ferguson, Mo., police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown last summer, an event marked by conflicting accounts from bystanders.

He killed an unarmed teenager.

Not all evangelicals believed that Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August, should have been indicted in a recent grand jury hearing.

A Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a police officer for killing an unarmed teenager there.

If he hadn't lured the burglars in, I believe the case would have still been a double murder, since he killed both unarmed teenagers when they were absolutely no threat.

Not exact matches

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.

One week into the series, a white policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Regardless of where people stand on the issue, the fact remained — an unarmed black teenager that reminded many black people of our cousins, brothers and nephews was killed and wouldn't be coming back (and it wasn't the first time).

And while the facts and circumstances aren't identical, parallels were inevitably drawn between the deaths of Ferrell and Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager killed in Sanford, Fla., by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, who was acquitted of second - degree murder after claiming self - defense.

The mother of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed teenager shot and killed by an NYPD officer in 2012, said at a rally today that she will campaign against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as he seeks re-election this fall.

Carrying banner reading «Black Lives Matter» at the helm of the procession were the families of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teenager shot dead by police in his home in 2012, and of Brooklyn 16 - year - old Kimani Gray — who was allegedly carrying a pistol when officers killed him in the street in 2013.

Thy include changes to the criminal justice laws, including raising the age from 16 to 18 to treat teenagers as adults in the court and prison system, and appointing a special prosecutor in police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed.

The trailer reminds us of the night unarmed African - American teenagers were shot and killed by law enforcement officers.

In Kathryn Bigelow's drama, a seemingly endless night in 1967 Detroit unfolds, showing what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident, in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

Unfolding on a long, hot July night in 1967 Detroit, it depicts what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident (the title of a well - known book by John Hersey about that night), in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

Following George Zimmerman's (refuted) claims that the Smithsonian Museum was interested in acquiring the gun with which he killed unarmed black teenager Martin, the question seems particularly pressing.

First unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach, this charcoal drawing depicts the Ferguson, Missouri, police force in riot gear during a protest over the killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.